A daemon is a program that runs in the background for an indefinite period of time.
An important daemon on Unix-like operating systems is the cron scheduler that can be configured to perform tasks periodically. Though there are many different types of daemons, we will explore how to create a cron daemon.
Source: Create a Daemon in Perl with Schedule::Cron, an article by Nicholas Hubbard.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s possible to ship portable executables of Python applications without sending your users to Python packaging hell.
Source: You Can Build Portable Binaries of Python Applications, an article by Hynek Schlawack.
Haskell is a pure and lazy programming language, and the laziness allows us to write some algorithms very elegantly, by recursively referring to already calculated values.
Source: More recursive definitions, an article by Joachim Breitner.